Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, clean…

Yvon Chouinard
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Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf. ✨ Yvon Chouinard (2006). Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, p.90, Penguin
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